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I find it odd that you would say "fooey". And probably racist.

Hmm? What rights? Didn't we just establish that all rights belong to Viacom?

From what I heard, he also called himself a sinner in the very next sentence.

And just to point out the blindingly obvious, and the slightly less obvious of padding my count, Beardy McHillbilly didn't lose his wittle freedom of speech. He said what he wanted, and it got published. Dealing with the fallout is a humorous in this instance consequence. Bet he wishes we didn't have that pesky freedom of the press thing.

While your point is accurate, lolgaxe was targeting the right wing who claim that his freedom of speech was violated, when in reality 'twas his freedom of speech that caused everything.

There is such thing as bad press, but there is a difference between this case and Puala's case. Mr. Duck guy said something that a notable percentage of people believe in the context of religion (not so much with the "Happy Negro Times" history rewrite). Paula's situation (which I believe was overreacted as well) said things in the context of racial superiority and not in the context that many can relate to.

In this case, A&E took a gamble in thinking that their move would prevent the lost of viewers, but ironically it did the opposite. I think this will only increase support for Mr. Duck guy because I doubt many of the offended groups even watched the show to begin with.

You're absolutely right, but everything that was said was already assumed in the context of the show. I don't think anyone needed to read that article in order to know his beliefs. So, if anyone had a problem with A&E showing Mr. Duck guy, it would have been a long time ago.

The best move would have been to release the same response message, but keep him on air as is. Given the fact that it's the most watched something or another on cable tv, I would be more concerned with its viewers than other shows.

Never heard anything about that. I don't follow this show...GQ or Rush Limbaugh so basically all the information I had on it was contained in little blurbs linked here and on my Facebook from friends. Haven't seen anything pertaining to him talking about vag and ****...but im not saying it didn't happen..

I just have a limited number of @#%^s to give each day...and I wasn't going to waste them all on some Redneck being booted off his sh*tty *** TV show for a bit.


Edited, Dec 20th 2013 10:14am by rdmcandie

I may have pissed off a lot of my Facebook friends by sharing this story and asking why the people defending Phil Robertson aren't also defending the minister who was defrocked for performing his gay sons wedding.

Some other people on FB were likening it to when the Dixie Chicks were banned and people were burning their CDs. There's even a Willy Wonka gif of it somewheres.

And of course next season is in the can, so he'll be back on even though he's officially suspended. By the time that's over, this whole thing will blow over with one of those "I'm sorry if my correctly held righteous views offend you sinners" non-apologies.

What loss of revenue? Sales of his duck stuff will go through the roof this Christmas, as his customer base supports this "fine Christian man".

Nah, it won't. They're too big for there to be any benefit from this. They didn't need the publicity, no anti-gay people are going to suddenly buy their things who weren't already, a good many average Joe Consumers are going to hesitate now to buy the joke calendar for a friend because they don't want to offend someone. The brand is too big and too wrapped up in the personalities. The timing also couldn't be worse, well I guess November 20th would have been worse, but it's not good. This isn't ChikFila, and I'm sure this won't impact sales of their (as I may have previously noted really awesome) duck calls. It will hurt sales of the personality brand, just as Paula Deen was hurt by her idiocy.